Friday, January 20, 2012

Marvel Variants Turns 50 !!

We still work for the same company, but Mr. Variants recently hired an Operations Manager to handle his old responsibilities. Then he promoted himself into the stratosphere so he could do things like go to Brazil and search for new business.

Here's documentation of his efforts in Brazil.

For those of you new to my site, Mr. Variants makes a lot of money seeking out rare Marvel comics and selling them for a small fortune. Every time he does particularly well, I get a snarky email from him about the sale, about how he found the comic at a yard sale for 25 cents, about the overall profit margin, and about how many emails it took to separate some geek from his $459 in exchange for a 1978 Howard The Duck comic with a variant cover.

I think the auction was kind of hit and miss in regards to pricing as some of the books, like the spidey (Spiderman) variants, went for bargain prices, while others did very well. The auction was competing with the World Series and football.

Trust me, Mr. Variants.....The comic book auctions don't compete with the World Series or football.

Battlestar Galactica, Adventures of Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius, Doctor Who, or SuperFriends might have been on TV at the same time as the auction though.

Anyway, Mr. Variants turned 50 today, and we dedicated most of our morning meeting to that milestone. So many of our employees wore all-black clothing to the party that the room looked like the crowd at an early 90's art gallery.
Here he is wearing what looks like the Hogwarts sorting hat, holding all his loot.

We had a guest from China in this meeting, BTW. I bet she thought we'd lost our minds.